Broadband transmission via underground medium-voltage power lines - Part I: Transmission characteristics

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2414-2424

  Lazaropoulos, Athanasios G ^a   Cottis, Panayiotis G ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Broadband over power lines (BPL) modeling; modal analysis; power line communications; underground medium voltage (MV) power lines

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM UP APPROACH; BROADBAND OVER POWER LINES; BROADBAND TRANSMISSION; LOW-PASS; MEDIUM-VOLTAGE POWER LINES; MULTI-CONDUCTOR; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POWER LINES; POWER-LINE COMMUNICATIONS; TRANSMISSION CHANNELS; TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS;

ARMOR; MODAL ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINES; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC LINES;

EID: 77957015632     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2010.2048929     Document Type: Article

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